ISIS's savage leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in an air raid in Syria by the US-led coalition, according to reports.
GOTCHA: ISIS chief has been killed, according to reports
Baghdadi died in an air strike on ISIS's stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria, acccording to Iranian state media and pro-government Turkish daily Yenis Safak.
The development is a hammer blow to the under-seige death cult.
It comes as RAF jets lay waste to ISIS in Iraq – blitzing factories and positions as Iraqi government forces close in for the kill in the under-seige terrorist stronghold of Fallujah.
MENACE: An image of the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Baghdadi, who is a shadowy figure, became a Sunni cleric and reportedly studied for a doctorate at the University of Baghdad.
The ISIS leader's family claims to trace its lineage back to the descendants of Prophet Muhammad.
KEY: If his death is confirmed the affect on morale could be huge
His escaped former wife Saga al-Dulmaimi said that when the pair eloped he was a “normal person" who worked as a university lecturer.
"At the time his name was Hisham Mohammad. He was a family man,” she told Swedish newspaper Expressen.
"How he then became Emir of the most dangerous terrorist organisation in the world is a mystery to me."
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